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I know this to be true, I have seen it first hand now.

This is Navajo, young male C.nebrius that I told you guys about last week. His little female mate nipped at his tail and then knawled half of it off. She was extremely aggressive.

While I had her and Navajo together NOT knowing she was so aggressive as of then, I noticed she was eating like a chow hound, and growing, in lentgh and width.
Navajo on the other hand seemed to eat quite sparingly. And was staying quite small.

Since giving the female away, Navajo's tail has healed up completely. He eats all the time, and good amounts.
He has put on wieght and is filling out. He is also growing in length now too.

He basks all day, as before he would not bask much, and would go under his rock early in the day. And she did not.

His color is nice now and bright, before he sorta looked drab.

Over all he looks like a perky, brightly colored , and larger youngster in just 2 weeks. And the fact he now stays out and is active like any young collared should, I have no doubt, stress and aggression from another lizard robbed him of those things.

So my point here is if you have one that is gaining and growing and one who is a bit shy, and not, you may want to keep an eye on things, and see if one may not be overly aggressive.
If so seperate and see if things change for the better.

Navajo, male C. Nebrius

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Eve / PHEve

That's very good advice and in fact I have been watching mine for that very reason. I see no bite wounds, but my little Peanut is quite shy and much smaller than Jazz. I will monitor her closely for any signs of aggression from her cagemate.

Thanks for warning us.

élan
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1.1.0 Collareds
1.0.0 Mali Uromastix
0.0.1 Butterfly Agama
1.0.0 Green Anole
1.0.0 Chinese Dwarf Newt
2.0.0 California Newts
0.0.1 White's Treefrog
0.0.1 Fire bellied toad
0.0.1 American Bullfrog
0.0.1 Midland Brown Snake
1.1.0 Felines
0.2.0 Canines
1.0.0 Equine

one is very GRABBY with the food, and the smaller or less agressive collared will stand back and just go without, while the GRABBY one takes the food.

So it does not even have to be a physical bite, or attack. I take notice to all these little things now , and house the more meek (less agressive) ones together.

From watching all my collareds, and (I watch them alot, LOL ) I find the FEMALES much more grabby and aggressive than ANY of my males. I'm serious !
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Eve / PHEve

don't ever get in the way of a woman and her food! hee hee
milly was always the crazy one about food but ivan has her days too. sometimes you would have thought that i never fed them. i swear one time milly had like 8 crickets in her mouth at once. she did not even chew, just picked up more and more. then went up on the rock and slowly swallowed them all. i thought for sure she was going to make herself sick.
i have been lucky though. my girls have been hogs but not mean to their cage mates! give navajo a kiss for me. i am glad he is doing better
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

Navajo is looking much better.

I don't get to observe Annabella and Ezra fighting over food because I like to handfeed Anna.

Just the other day though I fed picky Ezra a superworm and Annabella saw him and had this look like that would taste great, so I dropped another superworm in the tank and she attacked it. Ezra finished his meal really quickly and tried wrestling it out of her mouth. He gave up I didn't want them to have any rivalry over a limited food supply. I dropped another superworm in the tank and Ezra waited awhile to see if Annabella was going to take it and then he ate it. He can be so considerate.

When I first got Annabella she didn't want to do anything at all (w/c) and then she saw Ezra. It was like love at first sight with her hehehe
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-Nicole

2.1.0 collared lizards
2.0.0 side-blotched lizards
1.0.0 desert tarantula
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